You Can Go Home Again (at Day For Night)
HOUSTON, TEXAS: I tell everyone I grew up in Houston, but I really grew up in the south eastern suburb of Deer Park, out near the ship channel and the gasoline plants and edge...
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Election Day Signs At My House
I’m very lucky that this election features TWO people I know running for Austin City Council, in two different districts. That means I have TWO different signs hung up, one in the front, and...
Why I Spend So Much Time Going to Shows, Listening to Music
Thousands of people from all over the world gather in Austin, Texas each March for the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival. They come back for Austin Psych Fest in the late spring,...
Music forges family ties that bind
When I saw that the English electronic band Depeche Mode (known for their hit song “People are People”) was going to be to doing their first-ever showcase at the South By Southwest Music Conference...
Shopping in the Junior’s Department….(aka…You can go home again!)
When I was in Pasadena earlier this summer, I popped into the Pasadena Town Square Mall with my mother. It’s the mall that was built near my parents house in the early 80’s. If...
I Don’t Want To Go To The Dentist
When I was in high school, I had the most traumatic dental experience of anyone I know. Stop reading now if that sort of thing makes you uncomfortable. When I was 15 years-old, I...
The Space Shuttle I Knew
*If I hadn’t been too lazy to drag my laptop to a Latvian coffee shop with a decent Internet connection, this would have been published on July 21st. But I was lazy. When I...
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dead Man: Looking at the Movie “School of Rock”
They say you always remember your first love. And sometimes, you run into him in the most unlikely places. I just saw mine on DVD, in Richard Linklatter’s School of Rock. My first love...
